How to enable dark mode on WhatsApp

WhatsApp is one of the most common social chat platforms for most of the people around the globe. In recent times, many OEMs are enabling the dark mode on their gadgets for various reasons like reducing eye strain in the night, the purpose of battery savings, etc., This pushes the App developers on various platforms to make their application support for the dark mode. Already many apps like Messenger, Google Chrome, YouTube, Twitter, etc., brought this update to enable dark mode on it, and WhatsApp is a little late to the party. But anyway, after months of testing, finally the dark mode on WhatsApp is now available on both Android and iOS devices. In this article, we’ll show how to enable dark mode on WhatsApp, but first, we explain what it is.

If the dark mode is already present and enabled at the iOS 13 or Android 10 version, then WhatsApp dark theme will apply automatically. In Android devices, dark mode looks slightly greyish and in iOS devices, dark mode is completely black. Facebook, the company that owned WhatsApp has added the dark mode to help users in lowering the brightness of a phone display. As said by a WhatsApp media spokesperson, the company didn’t opt to combine pure black-white color as this combination causes high eye fatigue. Instead of it, they used off-white color and a special dark grey background that reduces the brightness of the phone’s display, bring down the glare and enhances contrast.

Here is the step by step guide to how to use it. Also, WhatsApp dark mode is not compatible with the iOS versions older than iOS 13 but compatible with Android 9 users.

How to enable dark mode on WhatsApp in Android devices?

Firstly, keep your WhatsApp to the latest software version.

Then, open WhatsApp and click on the three-button menu on the top right corner.

Enter into the settings menu and click on the Chats option.

Next click on the Theme option. You will be greeted with three options which include Dark, Light and System Default.

Select the Dark option to enable the dark mode.

How to enable dark mode on WhatsApp in iOS devices?

Check your WhatsApp software version first and update it to the latest one.

Then, open WhatsApp and click on the settings menu.

Click on the chats option and select Theme.

Select the Dark option to enable the dark mode.

Note: In WhatsApp web version dark mode is still under testing. So, you cannot use it now but there is an alternative solution to this. That is to use dark wallpaper. Let’s see how to do this.

Instruction to enable dark chat wallpaper on WhatsApp web

Firstly, open the WhatsApp web from your PC browser. Open your WhatsApp in your mobile and select the WhatsApp web option and the camera will be opened to scan the QR code which is already shown on your PC screen. Just scan it and you are good to go.

Now the menu on the top right corner. It’s shown in the form of three dots.

Open the Settings menu and click on the Chat Wallpaper option.

Next, you will be offered with many plain color wallpapers. Scroll down to the last and you can see a dark black wallpaper.

Select the black wallpaper and you can see the chat background messaging and the status section of the app. This is the alternative way to get the dark mode.